Politician Mindset Quotes

People have perceived dangers and real dangers, but to politicians, it's all the same.

When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.

I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

I have watched these politicians in our movement. I followed their methods and regardless of how they talk of their trade union loyalty, my experience has been that when they enter the political arena they begin by talking as politicians, and very soon thinking like politicians, to the desertion of every trade union activity they pledged themselves to become part of

I can't get inside the head of a politician today.

No politician has a 50-year horizon.

Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career one. Every now and then when I was in government, I would remind my associates that "When we start thinking of government as 'us' instead of 'them,' we've been here too long." By that I mean that elected officeholders need to retain a certain skepticism about the perfectibility of government.

Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.

I have not yet met the politician who did not start to dream of the next highest office the minute that he was sworn in.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.

For a politician, the long term is between now and the next election.

If you are an [American] politician it's very hard to imagine. "Now we are going to treat these guys as our equals? That's ridiculous. What have they ever done to deserve that?"

It seems to me that as soon as politicians get in, they become part of this club, and the rest of us, beneath them, are just ants running about. They become besotted with their position.